The evening world., 1887-10-10

yOuII utnOA ANU AoW oAhCh CuIOb "
husband, pears to me. An how was I re-
wardedP Listen Its time you was told,
then you'll understand my attitude as you
call it. Your father'd been engaged to John
he asked me to have him an I had him soon
enough, and then he showed me I wasn't
much to him an he went to The war. There 2
Now you got the story-now you understand
my attitude at last. Act as yop think best;
Martha breathed heavily; her face was set
and stern. She had told something that had
been her secret for years, and 1t wrung her
some to let her daughter know that she had
been an unloved wife. She glanced under her
were dried and that she was regarding her
mother, probably inwardly commenting
on the thin, faded hair and sallow face, and
scarcely considering 1t strange that the
father had been more drawn to the beautiful
pleasant to look upon, and who had Kept up
with the times marvellously. Martha grew
FESTIVE under the scrutiny.
=" Well?" she said at last.
You are o brave woman, mother" Rosy
returned with q touch Of sarcasm, as she
folded the letter n put 1t in her pocket.
" ! give him up at last. But you should have
told me in the beginning. .Therei do not
say it was hard for you to tell me even now;
I know 1t was"
~ s'possd You didn't care for him very
strong" her mother dryly remarked, puz-
zled over her easy victory.
" care more for him in giving. him up"
Rosy, fastened to say, and Somglicating the
against your wishes. And poor fatherl"
sewing away from her. Pore who?"
Rosy was APPALLED, at the storm she had
raised.
"Hush~ she cried. "The man will
hear"
"what do I caro- who hears2 What you
mean by pore father ?. And me-go! leave
me goI"
She switched her rocking chair around
until her back was to her daughter; she was
trembling in every limb, her nostrils dilated,
q dull flush coming to her cheek. "Go!"
Rosy left the porch, left the garden, and
sped away to q refuge. she and John had
piness.
This refuge was an enclosure formed by
four elms of unknown age, and whose limbs
swept the ground n encircled o space about
Here John CrolI and Rosy had plighted their
troth, and here Rosy had waited In vain for
him when her mother had refused to sanction
their union. Here she came after she had
made her plea for the last TIME and gained
thereby the saddest satisfaction-had heard
the story Of her fathers detection, the cause
of her mothers constant complaint and irri-
tal'ility. She know now that patriotism had
not taken her father to Tar; she could realize
her mothers accusations and jealousy. John
had told her that his mother had said Martha
Pierson loved the ground Thaddeus MARBLE
trod upon, and when he was shot down at
Chancellorsyille, Martha, instead Of g~rieving
as the people had q right to expect her to
grieye, had I" turned to stone +" and became a
cold, angered woman. rebelling against the
decree OF Providence. To-day Rosy could
understand that GOODNESS and anger-her
mother had accused herself of sending her
husband 70 his death; no wonder she had rare.
ly spoken of the dead, father TO the daughter,
had curtly put q stop TO natural questions
when the child was old enough to know that
other girls had fathers and she had none.
Did she pity her mother2 She pitied her
father Her mother shouldh have softened after
the husbands death, should have altogether
favored Rosy, and Rhould havo Seen In their
marriage an expiation OF her " offence II
even. according 70 the Iss ,ahonts. Instead OF
timacy between John and Rosy, abe forbade
tho girl TO speak To- him, and without any
other reason than that IL was her will.
TWAS all too late for tyfAnnous edictsi kosy
had grayitGted TO John from the nEsts and